Maple Hts: Police name suspect in woman's stabbing

MAPLE HEIGHTS -- Police have charged a neighbor of Rhonda Jackson's in her stabbing death last week in the Maple Heights Bel Vista apartment complex.

Mid-afternoon March 5, police doing a welfare check found Jackson, 53, stabbed repeatedly in her apartment.

An intensive investigation by Maple Heights Police Department, along with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, resulted in the Sunday arrest of Darnell Newett Sr., 50, in connection with her murder.

Police released his name Tuesday afternoon.

He was charged with aggravated murder. Police say Newett is a resident of the same apartment building on Clare Avenue.

The investigation is on-going. If anyone has information about this crime, please contact the Maple Heights Police Department at 216-662-1234.